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cut-off
cut·off also cut-off C0827600 (kŭt′ôf′, -ŏf′)n.1. A designated limit or point of termination.2. A shortcut or bypass.3. A new channel cut by a river across the neck of an oxbow.4. The act or an instance of cutting off: a cutoff of funds; an electricity cutoff.5. Baseball The interception by an infielder of a throw to home plate from the outfield.6. A device that cuts off a flow of fluid.7. Music A conductor's signal indicating a stop or break in playing or singing.8. cutoffs Pants, such as blue jeans, made into shorts by cutting off part of the legs.adj.1. Designating a limit or point of termination: a cutoff date for applications.2. Baseball Serving to intercept or relay a throw to home plate from the outfield: the cutoff man.cut-offThe deliberate shutting off of a reaction engine.Thesauruscut-offnounThe act of stopping:cessation, check, discontinuance, discontinuation, halt, stay, stop, stoppage, surcease.IdiomsSeecut offEncyclopediaSeecutoffcut-off
cut-off Anesthesiology The point at which elongation of the carbon chain of the 1-alkanol family of anesthetics results in a precipitous drop in the anesthetic potential of these agents–eg, at > 12 carbons in length, there is little anesthetic activity, beyond 14 carbons, none Lab medicine 1. A time after which a specimen cannot be processed due to logistics or necessity for 'batching' specimens to ↓ labor in performing certain assays and.2. A critical value for an analyte which is ≥ 2 standard deviations above or below a mean or 'cut-off' and thus abnormal. See Decision level, Panic value.cut-off
Related to cut-off: Cut-Off Date, chides, Cut-off frequencySynonyms for cut-offnoun the act of stoppingSynonyms- cessation
- check
- discontinuance
- discontinuation
- halt
- stay
- stop
- stoppage
- surcease
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